Ron Samworth
Individual
Roles
Composer, MusicianBiography
Vancouver-based guitarist/composer Ron Samworth is known on the Canadian improvised/contemporary music scene as an inventive textural improviser and a strong fluid melodicist informed and inspired by a variety of music traditions including jazz, rock, new music, and folk music of many cultures. He leads the acclaimed Vancouver-based quartet Talking Pictures and co-leads the NOW Orchestra and is a member of Francois Houle’s electro-acoustic quartet and the Hard Rubber Orchestra. He has appeared at all the major Jazz Festivals across Canada, the Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville, at New York’s Knitting Factory, and the New York Improvisation Festival, New Music America, Vienna’s “Let’s Cool One” Chamber Jazz Festival, Chicago and Berlin jazz festivals and other leading venues in Europe. His inter-disciplinary work includes composition, performance and sound design for theatre, spoken word, film, and dance. He has composed music for Talking Pictures, Standing Wave, the Hard Rubber Orchestra, the NOW Orchestra and EDAM Dance Company. Samworth is also a longtime member and from 1992 to 2003 the artistic director of the New Orchestra Workshop (NOW), and a co-curator of a weekly concert series at Vancouver’s grunt Gallery from 1987 to 1994.Actuellecd, 2024
Collection
grunt gallery Programming Archive (Artist)Related programs
Jazz in the Gallery (Co-Producer)The Al Neil Project (Artist)
The Sniffy the Rat 10th Anniversary Bus Tour (Musician)
LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2001 (Musician)
LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2005 (Artist)